User blog comment:Llamao/A Disappearing Act/@comment-3474228-20120110203526/@comment-3474228-20120111010616

The otter hurries them inside. "Quick, guards're comin' back." Once everyone has entered, the otter slowly clicks the small gate back into place and turns around, looking at the interior of the castle. The main palace lies in the center of the grounds, but the otter is immediately able to spot the slave pens, a pit dug in the ground going around the base of the palace.

Intertwining iron bars are placed over the dug hole, and slaves are inside, most of them sleeping. However, many guards patrol the interior, and it is by sheer luck that the party got through the small unguarded gate unnoticed.

The otter lies prone on the floor, bidding the others to do likewise. He looks at Shadowbane and Corbus. "How're we gonna get past these guards. The ground're wide open. All we've got's the dark of the night fer cover."